This Week In SAP

Posted on by

Blimey! What a week this has been… There were so many news that I had to kick-start the blog press last Tuesday for a “Leo Special” (#leogone). The second half of last week was mainly dominated by discussions whether SAP is now an acquisition target and newsitems regarding further SAP board reshuffles. Let’s have a look at what we’ve got…

  • Forrester’s Paul Hamerman reports on the departure of John Schwarz and elevation other board level changes. He also sees a commitment from SAP to “changing its meandering position”.
  • Redmonk’s James Governor chimes in with a wonderful summary on Leo Apotheker’s biggest legacy at SAP: Sustainability.
  • TechTarget’s Courtney Bjorlin asks whether SAP would be in a better position “if Shai Agassi never left“. This is a conversation that has bounced around the Blogs and Twittersphere for a while now and is a moot point. My take is that Agassi, as disruptive as he has been during his tenure at SAP, created a lot of fronts within the software house. Surely SAP would be different had he remained in power, but I’m not convinced if it would be a better place (no pun intended, haha!). I’m also not sure about the point that is made around “innovation around SAP”. SAP’s Composition Environment does exactly that. It’s there!
  • Stop-Rewind-Play: Josh Greenbaum talks about “SAP restarts the post-Kagermann” era.
  • Panaya came up with an analysis of SAP salaries. Interesting and sobering fact to note here is the gender bias “The median salary for women is 8-12% less than men in Europe and North America.“

Tell us about it, Twitterverse!

  • twailgum: What if Shai Agassi never left SAP? by @cbjorlin>sap’s problem is b/c ‘outsiders’ like shai do leave. promote fr w/in!
  • jonerp: Very interesting update from @sambayer on “What is SAP CRM really being used for?” (w/Survey data)
  • SNCSocrates It may be stressful, frustrating, and incredibly confusing, but I’m actually starting to enjoy ABAP programming.
  • sapcebit: SAP combines CeBIT with World Tour in Halls 19 and 20. Reg show floor Hall 4, D12; Hall 5, A04
  • cote: Man, seems there’s executive musical chairs going on over at SAP:

Comments are closed.